The Wellness Scoop

Welcome to The Wellness Scoop! Join Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella, and Registered Nutritionist and founder of Rhitrition, Rhiannon Lambert every Monday and Thursday for your weekly health inspiration.

Each episode delivers the latest wellness news, expert advice, and personal recommendations from Ella and Rhiannon—simple swaps, easy ideas, and realistic tips to help you live healthier, no matter how busy life gets.

Tune in to start your week feeling informed, inspired, and armed with tools to build a healthier, happier life!

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Sep 1, 2020 · 53 min
10 Ways to De-Stress Your Life
Our September back to school special is on how to de-stress and de-clutter your life, looking at how we can bring more joy, ease and efficiency into our every day. We talk to author of Life Skills Erin Zammett Ruddy about mor...
Aug 25, 2020 · 46 min
Reasons for Optimism About Climate Change
Why should we be optimistic about the solutions to climate change? Why is positivity more likely to give us better results and what does the latest research show? We talk to Lily Cole about everything from rewilding to the power of technology, the role...
Aug 18, 2020 · 54 min
Finding Work Life Balance
We spend about a third of our lives at work so finding joy, balance, purpose and structure is so important. Yet so many of us feel instead that our jobs are a daily grind that have a negative impact on our mental wellbeing, so today we’re asking Samant...
Aug 11, 2020 · 51 min
A Celebration of Imperfect Women
We speak to Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women, about feminist hero’s, the importance of embracing our imperfections and flaws, why we airbrush certain parts of stories, why we tear each other down and why women can’t always support women.
Aug 4, 2020 · 40 min
A Practical Approach To Mental Health
We talk a lot about the importance of sharing our worries and anxieties, but what can we do on a practical level to change negative cycles and to create consistent patterns that support our mental health. Physiatrist, Dr Sarah Vohra, talks irrational t...
Jul 28, 2020 · 51 min
How to Create Positive Body Image
Body image concerns are prevalent, so the question is how do we proactively fight against that pressure and foster a body sense of self and in doing so create a positive body image. Should we just stop talking about body image altogether, how far reach...
Jul 21, 2020 · 40 min
The Flaws of Perfectionism
We so often see perfectionism as a positive flaw but could it be having a detrimental impact on our mental health? We speak to LSE professor Dr Thomas Curran about the rise in perfectionism, the conflict of who we really are versus an...
Jul 14, 2020 · 41 min
Simple Tools for Health: Breath
Over the course of the day we take about 25,000 breaths. It’s a process that is so automatic for so many of us but could it be a missing pillar of health? Today we explore the topic of breathing looking at the history and latest scientific research wit...
Jul 7, 2020 · 55 min
Love and Relationships: 15 Facts
From the impact of coronavirus and quarantine on our relationships to online dating, marriage, divorce, the ups and downs of being single, love at first sights and whether soulmates exist, we’re looking at fifteen facts on love and relationships with L...
May 12, 2020 · 39 min
Human Kindness
Why should we believe in human goodness? Today we’re exploring the power of human kindness and why the theory that most people are governed by self-interest is possibly totally inaccurate. Our guest Rutger Bregman instead argues that history shows we a...
May 5, 2020 · 40 min
Finding Gratitude in the Hardest Moments
What happens when life as you know it disappears in an instant, when the world is swept from under you and every part of your day to day shifts. We’re talking to our friend Lauren who experienced extreme isolation eight years ago about finding blessing...
Apr 28, 2020 · 40 min
Easy Ways to Stay Healthy at Home
From finding motivation to boosting your energy levels, emotional eating, boredom snacking, morning routines and managing any pressure to be using this time productivity, we’re talking staying healthy at home with nutritional...
Apr 21, 2020 · 26 min
A Calming Meditation
A calming, grounding guided meditation to make you feel a little more calm and peaceful during this strange time. The meditation itself runs from 5.30 - 21.20 and is led by Phoebe Greenacre https://phoebegreenacre.com 
Apr 14, 2020 · 26 min
Checking In and What We’re Loving
A shorter episode focused on what we’ve been enjoying reading, watching and listening to during these strange times and how we’re trying to keep happy and productive.Poem: The Rainbow Children, Gemma Peacock  Books:  - ...
Apr 7, 2020 · 43 min
Coping with The Current Uncertainty
How can we manage the huge shifts and monumental changes we’re dealing with across the world right now? How do we find joy and keep our sense of self when the way we define ourselves and our everyday has shifted so drasticall...
Mar 31, 2020 · 41 min
Is Happy Ever After a Myth?
Does our quest for a seemingly perfect life, a constant need to keep up with the Joneses and a series of unachievable expectations fuel our growing levels of unhappiness and anxiety? We’re looking at the social norms that surround marriage, children, c...
Mar 24, 2020 · 49 min
Reframing Our Thinking: How to Believe Good Things Can Happen
How do we reframe our thinking to believe good things can happen, how do we spread good in such a difficult time and how can we manage our mindset to stop us drifting into negativity bias, especially in such an uncertain period? Neuroscientist Dr Tara ...
Mar 17, 2020 · 40 min
Embracing Life’s Challenges
Today’s guest, therapist Sasha Bates, talks embracing vulnerability, expanding our emotional bandwidth, why we shouldn’t cut ourselves off from difficult emotions and the importance of stopping the ‘I’m fine’ mentality. From loosening the protective em...
Mar 10, 2020 · 41 min
Eco-Anxiety and The Healing Power of Nature
Does our cultural move away from the natural world impact our mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing? Does it really change things in our brains, guts and our ability to heal? What does the science say? Our guest is the science journalist Lucy Jones...
Mar 3, 2020 · 43 min
How To Build A Healthy, Happy Brain
Can we build a healthy brain? Are there psychological and lifestyle factors that impact on our brain’s functioning and therefore our wellbeing? We’re talking to Kimberley Wilson, a psychologist who’s passionate about education on the preventative measu...